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great read…mind blowing the type of risks these explorers took.

This was a pretty fascinating bit of narrative non fiction. I‘m interested in the lost city / lost world theme so when I heard about this on a podcast it sounded excellent. Gruesome, but excellent. For a lighter tone, watch the Disney movie Jungle Cruise after reading it 🤣 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Another excellent Litsy recommendation that I thoroughly enjoyed. I would not have fared well on any expedition into the Amazon 😂

I could get behind this.

Explorer Percy Fawcett took many trips to South America to explore within #Bolivia and Brazil before ultimately disappearing in 1925, searching for an advanced, ancient city he was sure existed. Grann tells this story alongside his own adventure of learning about Fawcett. Terrific read with a really satisfying ending.

#ReadingAmericas2023

Julie Morstad‘s delicate, whimsical illustrations capture the free spirit of a French woman who made a solo trip on a motorcycle around the world in 1973. The text is by Amy Novesky, who interviewed Anne-France Dautheville at her home near Paris before writing this, and includes the challenges she faced like mechanical trouble, falls & harsh weather. But the people she met were wonderful. (Dautheville wasn‘t a girl btw; she was 29.) #kidlit

What a young woman packs for a motorcycle trip around the world.

On her solo motorcycle trip around the world, Anne-France Dautheville stopped at a hot spring I know well: Liard! It‘s on the Alaska highway in the Yukon Territory and it is a great place to relax after a day on the road.

I want the world to be beautiful, and it is beautiful. I want people to be good, and they are good.
-Anne-France Dautheville

Fascinating true story that doesn't end well. Kids that like creepy mysteries will love this.